December is such a fun month. One activity that the children like to do for Christmas is a paper santa. Here are some very detailed instructions with lots of pictures 🙂
Prepare the materials:
1- Cut an oval for the head. We usually use white construction paper. But, I saw it done with pink on pinterest, and I liked it. Just fold the paper in half (like a hamburger). We only use one side of the paper per student. This means that you can get 2 ovals for 2 students from one sheet of construction paper.
2- Fold red construction paper in half again (like a hamburger) to cut the triangle shape for the hat. We make it wider on the bottom part so that we can add cotton balls in that space.
3- Take out those fun wiggle eyes. Another option is to cut small circles in either black, brown, green, or blue.
4- You can’t tell in this picture, but we cut the white strips by using the long side of the paper.
Put it together:
1- Glue the hat to the front of the circle.
2- Add the wiggle eyes.
3- Add the paper nose.
4- Glue a cotton ball to the top of the Santa hat.
5- Add glue to the bottom part of the hat.
6- Add the cotton balls.
7- Glue the long strips of white construction paper along the bottom part of the circle.
8- Start curling the beard. We had started curling the beard with a marker, but the loops were too big.
Then, we decided to use a pencil to make smaller and tighter loops.
9- The pencil shape made Santa’s curly beard 🙂
10- You can add cotton eyebrows.
11- Or, a cotton mustache (or both). You can even fold the tip of the hat at an angle if you want.
12- Finally, you can add string to the top of the hat to hang it on the tree. It makes a good keepsake 🙂
Enjoy!
